US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus and method for providing individual sound zones" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,303, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for providing individual sound zones" was invented by Martin Schneider (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Wetzel (Bubenreuth, Germany), Andreas Walther (Feucht, Germany), Christian Uhle (Ursensollen, Germany), Oliver Hellmuth (Buckenhof, Germany), Peter Prokein (Erlangen, Germany) and Emanuel Habets (Spardorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a plurality of loudspeaker signals from two or more audio source signals is provided. Each of the two or more audio source signals...